Play your way with an overhauled gameplay experience powered by feedback from the FC Community, and choose between Authentic Gameplay and Competitive Gameplay presets.
Put your dream squad to the test in Football Ultimate Team, with Tournaments and Live Events, as well as a refreshed Rivals and Champs experience.
Enjoy unrivalled authenticity in EA SPORTS FC 26, featuring 20,000+ players across 750+ clubs and national teams, in over 120+ stadiums and 35+ leagues.
The club is yours
Play your way with an overhauled gameplay experience powered by community feedback.
The new Authentic Gameplay preset delivers the most true-to-football experience ever in Career. Meanwhile, the Competitive Gameplay preset – driven by refined fundamentals, added consistency and enhanced responsiveness – is tailor-made for play in Football Ultimate Team and Clubs.
Manager Live
Experience Manager Career like never before with all-new Manager Live Challenges.
Earn rewards throughout the new season by taking on a variety of real-world scenarios and alternative storylines – ranging from a few minutes of play to multiple seasons.
Fan-requested updates
New gameplay features in EA SPORTS FC 26
Play your way in FC 26 with an overhauled gameplay experience powered by feedback from the FC community.
Two distinct gameplay presets
Switch between Competitive and Authentic presets, each built for a different way to play.
Competitive is tuned for head-to-head action in Ultimate Team and Clubs, with faster passing, smarter keeper rebounds and more direct control.
Authentic brings a true-to-football feel to modes like Career, featuring more positionally-responsible defenders, realistic corner success rates, lifelike goalmouth scrambles and more.
Feel the difference with refined gameplay fundamentals
Informed by the FC community, game-wide changes deliver more responsive dribbling, smarter AI positioning, re-tuned run curves for more explosive players movement, improved ball shielding, close-body volumetric animations and more
More features, inspired by the community
FC 26 also introduces new features requested by you, such as fresh PlayStyles and additional Player Roles as well as a variety of accessibility improvements including a High-Contrast Mode, pitch saturation adjustments and more.